Archaeologist Biographies G-J

Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega is the name of two gentlemen who lived in Spain in the 16th century, and were scholars, gentlemen and soldiers. They were not related, and in fact never met: but they both held considerable importance to Spanish culture.

Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod [1892-1969]
British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod did most of her excavation work in the middle east, and is best known for her work at Gilbraltar, Western Judaea, Southern Kurdistan and Mount Carmel.

John Garstang [1876-1956]
British archaeologist John Garstang excavated at Jericho, and Sakje-Geuzu and Mersin in Anatolia.

John Gilbert Hurst [1927-2003]
British archaeologist John G. Hurst is considered one of the founders of Medieval archaeology.

Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas [1921-1994]
Lithuanian born archaeologist Marija Gimbutas was a respected scholar in Indo-European studies of the Bronze and Neolithic periods.

Hetty Goldman [1881-1972]
American classical archaeologist Hetty Goldman excavated primarily in Asia Minor, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.

Stephen Jay Gould [1941-2002]
American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was a phenomenal force for the popularization of hard science.

R. Fritz Graebner [1877-1934]
German ethnologist Fritz Graebner argued that material remains could be used to identify cultural diffusion.

Edith Hamilton [1867-1963]
Educator and historian Edith Hamilton had an untold effect on generations of archaeologists.

Emil Haury [1904-1992]
American archaeologist who pioneered archaeological investigations with geoscientists, and championed dendrochronology.

Christopher Hawkes [d. 1992]
British archaeologist and proponent of the explicit science of archaeology

Jacquetta Hopkins Hawkes [1910-1996]
During her career, British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes firmly believed that archaeology was headed down the wrong path by over-emphasizing the pure science aspect.

Thor Heyerdahl [1914-2002]
Norwegian explorer and self-trained archaeologist, Thor Heyerdahl was a long time supporter of cross-oceanic diffusion theories, having tested them himself on numerous occasions.

Hans Hildebrand [1842-1913]
Swedish archaeologist, best known for his evolutionary studies of Bronze and Iron age artifacts.

Ian Hodder [b. 1949]
British archaeologist, and undoubtedly one of the most influential researchers of modern archaeology.

William Henry Holmes [1846-1943]
American anthropologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, W.H. Holmes spent much of his career at the Smithsonian Institution.

Ales Hrdlicka [1869-1943]
Bohemian-born physical anthropologist, Hrdlicka was a tremendously influential scientist at the Smithsonian Institution

Imhotep
The architect, vizier, wizard, doctor, and scribe named Imhotep is a most maligned and mysterious figure of Egypt's Old Kingdom, and one of the few non-royal people known from the period.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega [1539-1616]
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega chronicled (and it must be said, fictionalized) the Spanish colonization of the Inca civilization in South America and the Mississippian cultures in borth America.

Geoffrey Irwin
Geoffrey Irwin has been an influential leader in the archaeology of the Pacific islands.

Cynthia Irwin-Williams [1936-1990]
American archaeologist Cynthia Irwin-Williams was at Eastern New Mexico State University when she conducted important interdisciplinary archaeological research at Salmon Ruins.

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac [1937-1985]
Archaeologist and paleontologist Glynn Isaac was a highly influential archaeologist and paleontologist.

Jean-François Jarrige
Present-day director of the Guimet Museum, Jean-François Jarrige has had a long productive career in archaeology.

Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
The third president of the United States was an avid--well, actually Jefferson was avid about a lot of things, but one of the things he experimented with was archaeology.

Jesse D. Jennings [1909-1997]
Jesse Jennings was an American archaeologist, who spent most of his career in the American southwest and Great Basin, with particular emphasis on the Fremont culture.

Jia Lanpo [1908-2001]
Chinese paleontologist Jia Lanpo was one of the founders of scientific archaeology in China and was instrumental in the founding of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Academia Sinica.

Donald Johanson [b. 1943]
Paleontologist Donald Johanson is probably best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus afarensis hominid known as Lucy.